How to remove your details from BeenVerified
BeenVerified runs a network including PeopleLooker and NeighborWho — one opt-out covers the family, but a CAPTCHA and email confirmation are involved.
What BeenVerified exposes
Step by step
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Search your record
Go to the opt-out search and find your profile.
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Verify and confirm
Complete the CAPTCHA, give an email, and click the confirmation link they send. The request does not exist until that link is clicked.
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Check the sister sites yourself
BeenVerified, PeopleLooker and NeighborWho share infrastructure, and one opt-out usually propagates — but "usually" is doing real work in that sentence. Search each one by name afterwards and submit separately wherever a listing survives.
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Look for duplicates before you finish
Court-record data means BeenVerified often holds several records for one person, split across address history. Search your name with previous cities and any former surname, and treat each result as its own job.
If that doesn’t work
- California residents can make a CCPA deletion request, which is a legal obligation rather than an opt-out they choose to honour.
- If the CAPTCHA loops without accepting, switch off any VPN and retry — datacentre IP ranges are a common cause.
What removing yourself from BeenVerified won't do
Most guides skip this part.
- It removes listings, not the underlying records. The court, property and marketing data behind them stays public and continues to be sold.
- Propagation to sister sites is a convention, not a guarantee. PeopleLooker and NeighborWho need checking by hand.
- Duplicates survive. A second record under an old address or a former name is untouched by an opt-out on the first.
- Re-listing happens on the next data refresh, and nothing about the original opt-out prevents it.
Your data is on more than just BeenVerified
We track 275+ sites across the US and UK. Run a free exposure check to see everywhere you appear — then let us send the removal requests for you and keep monitoring.
Or read how we do it and what we refuse to send, and how UK coverage compares.
FAQ
Does one request cover PeopleLooker and NeighborWho?
Largely yes — they share infrastructure — but check each if you find separate listings.
Why does it ask for an email address?
To send the confirmation link that activates the request. An alias works. Nothing is removed until you click it, which is the most common reason people think the opt-out failed.
What if I find a second profile later?
Submit it as a new opt-out. The system works per record, not per person, so a duplicate under an old address is a separate job rather than a failure of the first one.
Does this help me in the UK?
Not much. It is a US directory built on US court and property records. UK exposure runs through the open electoral register and the UK directories that buy it.
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Last updated 9 July 2026